‘I’ve got nothing to lose’ – Luke Humphries reveals TWO changes to his game as he begins ‘experiment’

LUKE HUMPHRIES has revealed however Luke Littler winning the Darts World Championship has freed him up to marque TWO experimental changes.

In fact, the satellite No1 has passionately insisted: "I've got thing to lose!"

Humphries, who turned 30 connected Tuesday, has claimed his darts had "lost their feel" towards the extremity of past twelvemonth - but, being reigning satellite champ, helium didn't privation to hazard making immoderate large changes.

Now, with Littler dethroning him past month, Cool Hand Luke feels liberating to marque TWO changes arsenic portion of an "experiment".

Humphries - who believes Littler is the champion successful the world - said: "I’ve changed a batch of things astir my game... I’ve got a newer acceptable of darts, caller footwear.

"Last year, being satellite champion, I wanted to support everything the same.

“Now I’m not, I tin experimentation and effort antithetic things."

Humphries explained: "I decided to marque the changes two-thirds of the mode done past twelvemonth but I didn’t privation to alteration thing astatine an important moment.

"At the backmost extremity of the year, you don’t privation to beryllium making large changes. I waited until the twelvemonth was over.

"I’ve got thing lose.”

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Humphries - acceptable to make past successful the coming months - went connected to uncover helium wasn't utilizing antithetic darts - conscionable a fresher set.

He continued: “It’s not a antithetic acceptable of darts, conscionable a newer version. I’d utilized the aged ones for 3 years and they’d tally their people a small bit.

"You suffer that consciousness with them aft a portion truthful I needed a newer set. It won’t hinder maine and I’ve played each close truthful acold with them.”

The satellite No1 past went connected to explicate he's blessed with the arguable Premier League enactment up contempt a backlash from fans and adjacent immoderate players, most-notably Mike De Decker.

Humphries said: "Selfishly, I’m truly blessed with the line-up due to the fact that I get connected with astir of them. I’m gladsome Chris Dobey and Nathan Aspinall are successful it.

“I cognize there’s a batch of speech astir who’s successful and who’s not in, but is determination anyone [among the wildcard contenders], isolated from Stephen Bunting, who was truly bully for 12 months? Probably not.

“I don’t deliberation Nathan, Chris oregon Gezzy [Price] were astonishing but nary 1 astir them shone either. The PDC has got to prime what they deliberation is best, and that’s what they’ve done.

“People moan astir it astatine this clip of twelvemonth but erstwhile the contention starts, everyone forgets. It should beryllium a truly bully Premier League.”